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Ell - PERI AL PAELLIMEIVT. HOUSE or PEERS, TUESDAY, MAY 3• The Bishop of LONDON and. Lord SHEREORNE took the oaths and their seats. In the Roxburgh Appeal, " 'ter v. Innes," Mr. BOYLE (Solicitor -general for , Scotland) was further heard for the Respondent.--Further:' hearing to morrow. Lord ETAwisEsiney laid on the table some Papers. respecting Danish Vessels.--Oidered to be printed. The Earl of Mollt4 presented a Petition from the Debtors confined in the. Gaol of the town of Leices-. ter, 'praying relief.-Orderecl to lie on the table. On the motion of the LOEID.CHANCELLOR; the: I. 4 ords were ordered to be summoned for Thursday, for the re-commitment of the Scbts' Judicature Bill. His Lordship *alto mentioned his intention to. move, • that, the Appeal; " The earl . of .Wetnyss v. Maccineen," respeeting Tiends in Scotlaud„ should be heard on Friday at ten in the morning. Lord BEAUCkIANIP presented a Petition from the City of Worcester, in favour of the Reversion Bill.—, Ordered to lie on the table. Adjourned till tomorrow (this day). ' HOUSE OF COMAIONS. TUESDAY, MAY 3. There net being a : sufficient number of Members present, liable to serve to form a list tiorn which to ballot for a Committee to try the merits of the Do . negall Eleelion Committee, the House adjourned till to-morrow (this day). MAILS. ARREVED-vl Dublin, D f,l I—2 Gottetiburgli, 2 4V2tertind, PRIG E OF STOCKS THIS AMY AT TWLLI:L O'CLOCK. • • COMO'S ..... - " - -67 k T r 7 E SUN. 110L6at QUIS DIC6Rt FALSUNI AUDEAT! LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DIAY 1808. WE are this day enabled to. lay before our Readers some further partic4lars respeCiing the reception of 4r. Nouitsz in France. It was with the utmost difficulty that he could 'obtain permission, after a week's delay, to landin France; bat he was not al lowed to proceed to, Paris: and while lie was on shore, though lie was not actually - treated as a Pri soner, yet he was watched with thentmost suspicion. Mr, Lewis, who .WAS.thebearer,of the Dispatches from. the American Government to General Alutt- STRONG, was at first refogpli le a ve- tit proceed to Paris; but it was at length, and after repeated soli citation, grinned him. There can be very little doubt that the object of thi. I.\L:e:ien to Fiance was to BUONAPARTE to relax from his.deteemina-. than to force America to take a decided part in the ' contest between Great .Britain . and France—et deter mination ,which he distinaltnotified to theArneri can Government several months ago ; and, it ap pears equally clear, that that objeet has corn. pletely failed. BOONA'PARTE has distinaly declared that he will allow of 110 Neutrals, and that America, therefore, must 'shut her Ports against British Ve ssels, and put an end to all intorcourse with this Country, or go to war with Fratice. This mandate Mr. detirettsOi' must now communicate to the 'Le gislature,:and to the people of America, and they will Lave very plain and simple question to decide upon, viz. whether or not they will enter into a wai.with, this Country, without 4tfy just' cause, but merely in its obedience to the orders of BtroN . APARTE. 'ever, well disposed Mr. JEVPILUSON may be towards France, we think be will find some difficulty -le per suadiug'the. People of America iuto War • with this Country. If when the arqi,l:: of the chesupeake Tenn (bore Was a kind of momentary frenzy against this Country, in America, which was most artfully excited and kept:tip, if Mr. J EFFE IISOSI then, with all his. inclination to cenwly with the wishes of 1 BuottaiitturE, would. nett then venture to plunge in -1 - tog War with this Country, it appears very unlikely that, he will attempt it now, when that frenzy has subsided, and when the ,People of America seem disposed to consult their reason, rather than their rsn'o - upon SO- intire4tipg a subjea. Mr. JET TCRSOZ:, we have no doubt, boped that BUONAPAHI•I3 would permit him to temporize a little longer . ; but in this hope he has , been disappointed, ~and he must now, however reluelantly, conimunicate to the People of America the insults and thernenaces has received from ~I)ia litipt!i;al Ally. When BUONAPARTE'S determination, not to - allow of any Neutrals, was communicated , to Mr. JEFt:ERSON, several, months ago, be did not complain of it in a Spe cial Message to the Legislaturts, but a$ lie could not comply,altogether with the orders of IitroNAPARTE, he had recourse to the measure of the Embargo, by which the interests of America were sacrificed to t h e will of t fereign Vsurner. This hacrifice, how ever, it appears, is not sn'fscient for the French ' Ruler; he will admit of no compromise, and Ame rica must, now either cimsent to range herself among the Vassal States of France, or vigorously assert her independalice in concert with this Country. So strielly are - BeNisrAate's Decries'eXecuted in France, that the Captain. of the t9:rge was informed, before !Inlet VOrient, (hat if he •attemptA`d r.t) re turn to France after being in an t. nglish Pori, his Ves3el would be seized. When the Us.ae came away; General A4m. sittONG , had- not denianded leis Passports; b ,had applied in vain for Passports for stiveral Atneri:- cans who were anxious ) under the present circum stances, to leave France. We received last night Dzach Papers to the 27th They contain some further details respetSting the operations, or rather the movements of the Roche fort and Toulon Squadrons. It is positively stated that they arrived at Corfu Feb. 25th, and having released the Sevenlslands from the blockade of t he English, re turned to Toulon. Thetemporary relief of Cotfu from our blockade, certainly could not be the, only objea for which BuoNAPA art ordered the Rochefort Squa dron into. -the Mediterranean, and . afterwards. sett it, in conjunction with the Toulon Squadron, into the Adriatic. But whatever other obje& he might have had, has been completely fruStrated, and the only advantage of which the French can boast is, that their Squadrons had the good fortune not to fall in with our's during their flight. THE Squadron under the command of Rear-Ad miral KEATS, with the Transports, sailed yesterday from the Downs. We are glad to learn that matters have been ar, ranged for• opening a regular communication be tweet] this Country and the new Government tythe Brazils. The Principal' motive wli;ch has induced Ministers to make an arrangement on this very im 7 ' portant subject, before they have received an official, Dispatch from the PRINCE REGENT, is their desire of gratifying the wishes of a vast number of morcan tile persons, who are anxious to embark in commer cial adventures with the Elev. , Government, which, indeed, holds fortlt:;•ihe.' most encouraging prospeas to the, trading w0r1d...---Lord ISI*RANGFORD, whose abilities,-and knowledge of the Prince, as well - as the high rega'rd which • the Prince entertains for him, have necessarily pointed him Out as the most proper charader to be employed as Ambassador; and Sir JAMES GAMBIER, 'Who is appointed Consul- General from our Government to the Cou r t of the Brazils, yesterday had a Goal intargrZ.....:_.;4o i , 14r. CANNIo.,;. They both visited the Portuguese Am bassador. now at our Court, and left town for POrtsmou Mr. Byism• is Lord STRANGEORD'S Secretary, They are to be conveyed to the Brazils in the : Eir , r . Yaks Frigate. • A comiderable number of tri . insPorts,'laden with',gimdi, and . 'many Portuguese and Englihhtneo, are expetited to sail very shortly to this new mart for British Commerce, and asylum from French tyranny. Just before this Paper was, put to Press we re_ ceived a series of flantburgh'Curiespondentens to the ‘43,1 ult. A letter from Abo states, that the Russians entered that city on the 1 Ith March, and that no iii her place remains. to,. be taken but the fortress of eaborg, the Gibraltar of the North. Accordiug to the New-York Letters, of the 28th February, General MOREAU is charged with being implicated in a plan destruaive to the deat'est in terests of the United States, .and order's have been given to arrest him. A Letter from Venice, of the tt th of April; states, that the English Fleet has been obliged to leave the Adriatic Gulph, in consequence of the arrival of the Toulon and Rochefort Squa drons of nineteen Sail of the Line which arrived in Corfu the of February and sailed the 23c1 again On a cruize. Yesterday morning his MASESFY, Princesses Au r;t7s.r.k, Sni9ttA, and kti accompanied by Lady G. But:xi-Hy, Generals GWYNN'S and Ftrzwy, 4 1 1 d, Colonel TAYLOR, took an airing on horseback, Her MAJESTY and Princess ELtiABETTI took an airing to Frog ore Lodge, and Walkt.td in the' gardens. It is said her MAJESTY and tile PAIN - CH'O,RS intend honouring the Prince ,s of NV:ails' and Duchess of BRUNSWICK with a visit. Y.eiterday the Duke Of YOtkx held a public day at his Office in the Horse Guards, .and gave audience& to -Earl MoxLt and Lord CASTLER PAWL A num ber of Military Officers \•ere introduced to his Royal' Highness on their . proinotion. Mr. Nom( sr: • yesterday visited Ltilyn's Coffee house. We have no doubt this Gentleman will; on his return to Anierina, be able to bear 'testimony at least to the more 'courteous hospitality of our Island, than that he .experienced in France. When at L'Orient, a guard was stationed before his dwelling, and it was not without difficulty that he succeeded in preventing the rifling and iusp - thion of his papers. It is not true, as was asserted in same of.the Papers of yesterday, that General ARMSTRUNb had de- Ulat)ded passports for himself. The Loan, it is said, in the City, is only to be for Five, if hot, for so diti le as Font. The Aiitreges of the British prisoners at. Verduit, and Arras, amonuting to about 10,00, have been considerably•afleviated by the remittance of the mo ney subscribed for their relief in this Country ; the common sailors, who thus receive t td. a day, in addition to their allowance from the French Govern ment, represent themselves now to be comfortably subsisted. NAVAL NEWS. Frmss the LONDON GiIIETTR,.Msy 3, dol. 4dmiralty-Office, May 3, 1808. 'Copy of a Letter from Rear-Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Cochrane, K. B. Commander-in- Chief of His Majesty's Shipi and Vessels at the Leeward islands, to the Honourable W. Pale; dated on board His Majesty'S Ship Belleisle, Marie Galante, March 12, 1808. SIR, I have the honour to inclose, for the information of, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the Copy of a Letter from Capt. Selby, of his Majesty's Ship Cerberus, commanding the blockading Squa dron off Point-à-Petre, Guadaloupe, who, finding the total impossibility of preventing the enemy's Privateers and their prizes from gaining that port, while they continued in possession of Marie Galante, as they constantly took shelter under the Batteries of that Island, from whence they watched a favour able opportunity to run over, he came to the reso lution of attempting the surprise of Grand Bourg, the principal town, in which the detachment sent on this service, under the command of Capt. Pigot, of the Circe, completely succeeded; whose report is also inclosed. The manner in which this service was planned, and the promptitude with which it was effettcd, re fleas the highest credit on Capt.. Selby, the other . Captains, Officers, and Men employed Thereon. I have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) . ALEX. COCHRANE. His Majesty's Ship Cerkerus, at anchor off Snt, Marie Galante, March. 3, 180 . 8. I beg to 'acquaint you Of the surrender of the 'lsland of Marie Galante to his Majesty's arms. .Finding the Island afforded a shelter for •the enemy's Privateers with their captured Vessels, and that 'it intvrfered considerably with the blockade of Guadaloupe, I considered it expedient to attack it whereupon I gave Cr:pt. Pigot the command of about two hundred. seamen and marines from the Ships named in the margin* ; and. on the 2d inst. we weighed froth Pkit Terre, and, a little after daylight, effetcled a landing about two, miles from "the town, with little opposition, and, soon after, the Island surrendered at discretion, and the Coin mandant,' with the notional military force, are pri.r, Loners of war. I find it a very valuable Island, in the highest state' of cultivation, and a large quantity of colo nial produce in the stores. I have distubarked the marines and garrisOned the place, an 4 shall remain with the force under my orders for your further direatons. I herewith inclose Capt. Pigot's letter to tue on the occasion, (wherein I am happy to obserycithe high trains ih . which 'he speaks of Capt. Bowen, and the Officers and Men under cornmatui) to 6 ,thcv with' ;I his orthe . arms and. Military stores taken on the Island. I hate the honour to be, &c. (Signed) W. SELBY. To the Han. Sir Alex. Cochrane, K.B. Cum m ander-in- Chid: ,&c. Ccrberus, Circe, and Camilla. Hie 11.14jesty's. Ship Circe, ofi* Galante, March 2, 1808. Yon tgivtrig done intrthe honour to give. me the command' of the debarkation of the seamen and marines of .Ifis_Majesty's Ships' Cerberus, Circe, and. Camilla, oti.the Island of Marie Galante, I have the pleasure to ihkirin you it was elfeded without loss, and ,the only opposition; a tv. , shot from a small battery to, the. northward ; and:that, notwith standing the badness of the reads through the cane ,patches, VhaVe: infinite satisfaCtion in adding, that the good order and cool Cantina of both. seamen and marines merits the highest praise. From our early appearance at the end of the town, we found but little preparations for resistance, except a field-piece, placed , in the centre of the principal street, on ap proaching which a-flag.of truce was sent, and the Inland surrendered at discretion. i cannot close this without expressing the ,stipport I had in Captain :Bowen, of His Majesty's Shtp Camilla, and all the Officers employed on this service. I have the Honour to be, &c. - • (Signed) HUGH PIGQT. TO- Copt. Selby, ais Abfjesty's Ship Certerris. A Return of Ordnance thund in the Island of Marie Galante, • March 2, I SOS. Town of Grand Bout& t six-pounder fieldpiece. Fort, t wentr- tonr-p ounlers and x - pounder. V iaux .Fort, 2 eightten-vounders. St. Louis, 2 eighteen•pounders.— Le Marechal,2 twelity-tour-pounders. Le Dias, twenty four.pounder. Cap Esterre, 2 twelve-pounders. 300 small arms. too barrels of powder in tho grand maga zinc. (Signed) H. PICOT. DIAIL, MAY 3.---Sailed his NlAjesty's Ship Mars, Rear-Admiral KBATES, and ih6 Audacious, with a Fleet of Traniports . with Troops under Convoy, for the Westward. PORTSMOUTH, MAY 3.—The Highlander, , COOPER, which sailed frarn this Port the .17 ill ult,'undercon voy of the Nemesis,, for. Quebec, was obliged to put back this day, in -consequence of being run foul of by another vessel, 'which carried away her bowiprit. Sailed the Bellette 'Sloop of War with a Convoy of about twelve Sail for the West Indies; and the Speak, IrmsToN, with female convitls for Botany Bay. ' Yesterday arrived 41r JAMES GAMBIER, Knt. His Majesty's Consul-General to the Portuguese Do mimons in South America, from London, to take his passage in the Fleet for the Brazils, which will sail in a. few days. SH BEHNESS, MAN I.—Sailed the Tartar Frigate, Captain BETTESWO RTH, for the Downs. Arrived the Deptford Tender, Lieut. ANTRAM, with seventrsix volunteers and itnprest men for the Fleet. MAY c.--Sailed the Lyra Tender, for Shields, and Deptford, for the River, with men ty bring down the invincible, 74. The Harty Gun-brig, Lieut.- Wicuthm, is unler weigh with a Convoy for Gottenburgh, and a Gun- boat in tow. Anchored at the Little Nore, from Illackstako , the Hyperion, of 32 guns, Capt. itnonra, where ibe received a number of hands from the Namur. The Boatswain of the Thunder Bomb was this d,ty . tried by a Court-Martial, for drtinkenness and strik ing one of her crew on the head with a marling• spike, which severely injured him; the Court, after "leafing evidence for and against the Prisoner, sen tenced him to be dismissed his situation, and ren dered incapable of ever serving agaiwiti that capa city. MAY M.—Sailed the crescent Frigate, for Wok wicb, to be repaired. Arrived the r Trompeuse Sloop of War, Captain DoLutic, from the Downs, with a number of French. Prisoners - on board. ' FROM THE DUTCH PAPERS: PARIS, APRIL 20.—A letter from Marseille'', dated the lath instant, - contains the following ‘` Yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, the Squa drou under the command of Admiral Ga.sijaßAUMS,' consisting of in Ships of the Lille, five Frigates, and several Brigs, arrived in the harbour of Toulon, alter having released the Seven Islands hem the, blockade of the English, and freed the Navigation of the Adriatic." A letter from Venice, or March 27, says, "At length we have received 'official accounts of the ar rival of the Drench Fleet at Corfu. M, Roaster. who is the French Consul-G f eneral ad interim here, yesterday received a letter, dated the 4th inst. flora M. BESSIERES, the Imperial Commissary at the Se' ven Islands, informing hien that the united Sque drons from Toulon and Rochefort reached the Road of Cerfu the 25th Feb. They, amounted to ten Sail of the Line, and several light. Vessels, On their ap pearance the Enemy's Squadron sheered off, and the, Adriatic was at that time, perfectly tree." According .to reports, the French force, at tha Seven Islands, is to be farther increased by a Sian Squadron, which is arrived in our seas. It. IS . asserted, that this Squadron, consisting of Orel / • Ships of the Line, eight Frigates, and eight other Vo*tels of War., teceived orders to return to the Seven Islands, ter the 'purpose of protecting' their commerce. APRIL tl.—According to reports circulated ill -Spain, the following statement of the sums plead by the Pimp: of the PEACE, as well in England 0 in ,Spain and other Countries, has been found among his papers :—ln England, 40 millions of piastres.--" In France, in the hands of private persons, to toil* lions.—At Gehaa, i2O millions.--LAt Coruuna and Ferrol, 10 millions, destined for England.---In the hands of the inquisitor-General One million and half.—ln the hands of /Madame Tun() half a roil: the hands of EstnqosA, eight litindtea thousand.--In the Public Exchequer 600,000, inak• Mg a total of 83,400,000 piastres. To the abova 4111131 must likekviO be added, a Brent quantity VS": gold nod 511ver in bullion, a great traibber of dbta worlds, and other valuables. On the lOth and 12th inst. three Vessels arrived :it Bourdeaux, Rochelle, and Nautes, having on board 2 17,7541 b. of coffee, a great quantity of sugar, in digo, cotton, and other Colonial produce: • • Vintixa, 2ti.—The day before yesterday a State Prisoner of distinction, double-ironed, Vat brought hither from Buhemia, in his own coach 9W tour horSes, under an escort - of sit Hussars and ,Statl Otficer.. He covered his tace that he might not be known. BIWSSiLS, APRIL 23.—A Courier from Paris nr'' rived here on the 215 t instant, on his way to 14 014 liMd, with intelligence that her Majesiy the latTee L li of HOLLAND was delivered of a Prince on the'nit;ilt of the tgth in6tant, at Paris. A Letter .from Amsterdam says We learn t bz u n s, . givensevseven ti c. e n i y p p o h r a t u ‘ s v e i L iz from Lisbon that, in Consequence of leave having' an d one Oldenhurgh Snip, are taking- - board cargoe s . attitldreferuiti Bremen, neutral bot which are well tanderstood to be for British Ports, though they are to clear out for other placest" 'This change of systeM is doubtless owing to the distressed state of Portugal, and to the French hav ing at lenol ; clisCovered that it was absolutely tie" cessary to the existence of tha; cduntry to allow its produce to find .a market. The following OW ° f ,, a letter, received froM Oporto by the way of Holialluv" contains . some''farther information respetging neutral trade, and other interesting particulars. " OpoaTo, M . Aacts ,f28.-‘The S pan i s h troops who were in garrison in our town, 4,000 in niunber, hnv© left es, but our situation continues still unpleasant. A Commissioner is arrived here fI.OT, Lisbon, charged with taking the declaration of all English property, and Of all debts owing to lite Eug c i lish ; the former is to be sold by public au6tion, an the latter must be paid without delay. , Whl 3 e ver i conceals any such corpo ra debt, is liable to suffer co r p ora punishment. extre mely " Our port is no longer shut against neutral ye" cels, which are allowed to enter and sail from it no^ • molested; yet in the latter case a passport is req ed froM the present Government, the charge for which amounts to 2 per cent. on the value of II ' ship and cargo. f Several neutrals have lately Oliv e here as well as in Vianna and Conde. Heavy coo tributionti are levied in ,our town. The Wine GOM Pally lias been obliged to pay (500,000 Crusatte4; an" the Merchants have been tined trout 400 to tee ° each. The intelligence of the downfall of lII' PRINCE of the PEACH has probably already r eached your place. I saw th i s day a letter from Madrid. s b t. c a e t n a h b i o s irt palace, twenty foundn tthat a i t n Thelreports of yesterday, relative to 'execuilotr!of the Marquis Pomakt... AnAsiJs',. aid con in ce il a ii l o e i d ls in of oli P v i re t a res;j!saici others; at the Brazils, , together with those or PRINCS HAGENT having declared'war against Spai t t i ' c ' se are assured . are unsanctioned by any anal" that tarte r ' advice that has yet been received from quarto The' the trial a r a l a d Stealing, is intended to make the ()deuce puotsi with transportation.